vs
0:8
overall capability wins (2 ties across 10 scored). Granite 4.2 8B leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Coding0:2
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Granite 4.2 8B leads coding (widest gap: +6.2 on SciCode).
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Granite 4.2 3B
- -
- Granite 4.2 8B
- -
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
IBM
IBM
Family
Granite
Granite
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Aug 25, 2026
Aug 25, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
No primary API price listed
No primary API price listed
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
131K
131K
Max output
8K
8K
Parameters
3B
8B
Pricing
Input $/1M
—
—
Output $/1M
—
—
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
-
-
Speed
tok/s
-
-
TTFT (s)
-
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
74.0
GPQA Diamond
55.9
63.1
Humanity's Last Exam
6.6
9.7
AIME 2025
—
86.7
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
9.2
11.2
AA-LCR v1.1
24.3
45.0
CritPt
—
0.3
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
47.7
SWE-bench Pro
—
19.1
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
30.8
LiveCodeBench
—
73.2
Terminal-Bench 2.1
13.9
18.4
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
25.3
31.5
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Granite 4.2 3B | Granite 4.2 8B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | IBM | IBM | — |
| Family | Granite | Granite | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Aug 25, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | No primary API price listed | No primary API price listed | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 131K | 131K | tie |
| Max output | 8K | 8K | tie |
| Parameters | 3B | 8B | B +5.00 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | — | — | — |
| Output $/1M | — | — | — |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | - | - | — |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.0 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.9 | 63.1 | B +7.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6 | 9.7 | B +3.1 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | 86.7 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 9.2 | 11.2 | B +2.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 24.3 | 45.0 | B +20.7 pts |
| CritPt | — | 0.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 47.7 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 19.1 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 30.8 | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 73.2 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 13.9 | 18.4 | B +4.5 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 25.3 | 31.5 | B +6.2 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Granite 4.2 3B
- Context
- 131K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 3B
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Compact edge-oriented member of IBM's Granite 4.2 family (Apache 2.0, Aug 25, 2026) — a dense 3B reasoning model with the same native 128K context and switchable thinking mode as its 8B and 30B siblings.
Granite 4.2 8B
- Context
- 131K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Mid-size Granite 4.2 dense reasoning model (Apache 2.0, Aug 25, 2026) with native 128K context and the same thinking-mode switch as the 30B flagship. The 8B and 30B sizes received agentic RL; IBM reports SWE-bench Verified 47.67 and Terminal-Bench 2.1 20.56.
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